17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 8-Jan-96 S.652 (H.R. 1555) by Harry Bartholomew@netcom
Perhaps some of our more lawyerly types can decipher whether it is getting better or worse as the conference committee chews. Not I.
I'm not a lawyerly type by any means, but my understanding is that it's getting worse:
* The provision prohibiting the FCC from regulating the Net has been removed. * The max fine for "indecent" speech is now $250,000. ^^^^^^^^^
Probably accomplished by making the "crime" a felony. Standard fine for Title 18 cases is $250,000 (there are exceptions, of course. EBD